Ideology and Discourse Analysis

Course content

This course aims to study the trajectory of the categories of ´ideology´ and ´discourse´ in radical social thought with a focus upon the issues of ´constitution of meaning´ and ´constitution of subject´. The topics to be discussed throughout the course are as follows: Marxism and idelogy, ideology as false consciousness (Lukacs), the question of hegemony (Gramsci), ideology as interpellation (Althusser), signification theory of linguistics (Saussure), the priority of utterence (Voloshinov), archeological and genealogical readings of texts (Foucault), the discursiveness of the social (Laclau and Mouffe), and intertextuality (poststructuralism and Derrida).